Health and caring in older people’s care

Our research focuses on older people and relatives, care management and organisation, health and social care professionals, and health students.

Hupp – Higher Education, Politics and Profession

The research group Higher Education, Politics, and Profession (Hupp) focuses on research questions related to the political governance and mission of higher education, the content and quality of the research and education mission in relation to internationalisation, justice, welfare and digitalisation. The vision of the research group is to strengthen the research quality and reach of the area, but also the linkage of the issues to Bachelor’s, Master’s, and doctoral education.

Industrial Engineering and Management

The research group in Industrial Engineering & Management has the intention to be the preferred partner for both employees at the University of Borås and for the region's municipalities and companies that want to learn more about research, education and innovation within the area of Industrial Engineering & Management with a focus on automation and AI.

Information Practices and Digital Cultures

How do different professions and communities interact with knowledge and information? What does it mean to think critically in today’s data-driven society shaped by platforms, search engines, algorithms? How are reading practices transformed when the material conditions for reading change?

InnovationLab

We study and develop digital innovations and evaluates how these will benefit society at large.

JEDi – Justice, Education & Didactics

Knowledge infrastructures

The Knowledge infrastructures research group (KIR) focuses on how information and knowledge is generated, maintained, shared and transferred.

Language and Literature Didactics (SPLITT)

This research group is a multidisciplinary subject didactics environment consisting of professors, senior lecturers, lecturers, and doctoral candidates with an interest in issues of importance to the teaching and learning of language and literature.

Management of B2B relations

The focus area of this research group is inter-organisational relationships and how these are established, maintained, and managed by involved stakeholders. These relationships should be understood as both interaction and interdependencies between organisations in order to enable sustainability for each individual actor as well as society.

Mathematics

The members of the research group mainly conduct basic research in mathematics.

Polymer Technology

Focus is on the development of environmentally sustainable polymer materials from biobased resources and from waste streams.

Polymeric E-textiles

The research group Polymeric E-textiles works in the borderland between textile technology and polymer technology. Textiles, with their possibilities for solving technical and social problems, is at the core of the work.